Idle Heroes Acronyms and Slang Guide

Hey everyone, it’s lemmingllama. I just wanted to make a small guide on all the different acronyms in Idle Heroes for new players. Whenever you are joining the game, it can be intimidating to go onto the Discord channels or Reddit threads and seeing all this nonsense that means nothing to you. So sit back, relax, and use your browser’s search function or scroll through this alphabetical list of acronyms.

Idle Heroes Acronyms

Acronym

Meaning

Active

Active skill, the special attack that each hero can use when their energy bar is full. Sometimes called ult

Prophet Orb, a resource you can exchange at the Prophet Tree to get hero shards and Prophet’s Blessings

Pokeball

Augustus Magic Ball, the artifact that increases Attack, Speed, and Block. Also called 8ball or augustus

Purple orbs

Hero Promotion Stones, a resource required to increase the tiers of your heroes

PVE

Player versus environment, any content that is not directly opposing other players. This typically refers to things like marauders, Guild raids, Pray for Fire, the campaign, etc where the combat uses different mechanics than the typical PvP combat

PVP

Player versus player, any content that is directly opposing other players. This typically refers to things like the Arena, friend battles, Brave Trials, and things that mimic PvP combat like the Tower of Oblivion and Sealed Land

Rainbow

The Color-Mixing aura given by having one hero from each faction in your team

Redemption

The Redemption aura given by having two Forest, two Fortress, and two Light heroes on your team

Regression

Regression is when you disassemble a hero using Soul Stones to get back fodder and 5 star hero copies

Replace

Replacing is when you use Soul Stones and some 5 star hero copies to turn a 10 star or stronger hero into a new hero

If you happen to know of any acronyms that aren’t on here that deserve to exist, just comment below or message me on Reddit at /u/lemmingllama or on Discord at lemmingllama#9071. I’ll happily include your acronyms as long as it makes sense and is actually usable.